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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Little that is new has been added either to Soviet or to\nnon-Soviet comment on the atomic bomb. The post-announcement themes have\nnow been worked into the fabric of Soviet propaganda, however, so that\nthey appear in any of the other contexts in which peace is discussed.\n\"BLACKMAIL\": Perhaps the commonest type of Soviet reference to the\nbomb continues to be the assertion that the West can no longer hope to\n\"blackmail\" the democratic countries by \"intimidating\" them with the\nbomb. For example, in a description of the celebration of International\nPeace Day in the USSR, the Soviet poet Leonidze is quoted as saying: \"We\nare being intimidated by the atom bomb, but we have had it for a long\ntime.\"\nRETALIATION: The retaliation theme, dramatically introduced on\n2 October by Ehrenburg, also reappears. The Georgian scientist\nMuskhelishvili is said to have declared: \"We do not intend to use\natomic energy for military purposes, but woe to those who will be the\nfirst to try to do this.'\nBAN THE BOMB: In the U.N. context there is still no specific dis-\ncussion of the concrete points at issue, but only a stereotyped repetition\nof the plea to prohibit the bomb, with a continued insistence that it is\nthe USSR that wants \"strict international control.\" For instance,\nMarinin says:\n\"The second Soviet proposal calls upon the General Assembly to\ndeclare the use of the atomic weapon and other means of mass\ndestruction to be in direct contradiction to the conscience and\nhonor of nations, and incompatible with membership in the U.N.\norganization. It is common knowledge that the Soviet Union has\nlong been in possession of the atomic weapon, but ever since\n1946 it has been consistently striving to have the atomic weapon\nbanned and to establish strict international control to enforce\nthis ban. (in English to the United Kingdom, 3 October)\nRESTRICTED\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority E.O. 1050"
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